Cynic - The Celestial Voyage Continues...

Veil of Maya
Celestial Voyage
The Eagle Nature
Sentiment
I'm But a Wave To...
Evolutionary Sleeper
Textures
Uroboric Forms
Cosmos
How Could I

SOURCE	PRO-shot	SOUND QUALITY	A	FORMAT	WMV	BITRATE	608	TRACKS #	10
LOCATION / VENUE		Arendal		Hovefestivalen		DATE		29-06-2007
NOTES:		the long awaited reunion tour: Awsome!!!!

Cynic - Live in Dallas

01 - Veil Of Maya
02 - I'm But A Wave To...
03 - Textures
04 - Uroboric Forms
05 - Celestial Voyage
06 - the Eagle Nature
07 - Sentiment
08 - How Could I

SOURCE	AUD	SOUND QUALITY	B+	FORMAT	Mp3	BITRATE	192	TRACKS #	08
LOCATION / VENUE		Dallas				DATE		09–07–94
NOTES:		Yappy Yappy is gonna be happy!!!!

Cynic - the Portal demo 1995

In the fall of 1994, after the transformation of Cynic, Paul Masvidal, Jason Gobel and Sean Reinert started a new project named Portal. The band name was Sean's idea and was inspired by a Robert Venosa painting which the band loved, entitled "Portal". The new band's music, however, was far from the technical metal that Cynic fan's had come to know. It was more in the style of Dead Can Dance and My Bloody Valentine meets a jazz fusion group, but still a complex and layered sound without the heavy guitars and fast tempos. Portal was a five piece, consisting of the above three ex-members of Cynic and completed by bassist Chris Kringel, who had toured with Cynic pre-post Focus, and lastly, by singer/keyboardist Aruna Abrams who came from Berkeley College of Music to join the band.
Portal demoed a total of ten songs, which were never officially released. There wasn't any form of packaging or artwork for the demo other than the Venosa painting entitled "Return To Source" (used unofficially), as a black and white CD imprint for promo copies. The ten songs were recorded in two five song sessions, first in late 1994 and early 1995 which ultimately became one big demo under the name Portal.
The common misnomer is that these ten songs were actually two separate demos, the second of which being under the name Aeon Spoke. The demo was, in fact, entirely under the name of Portal. Aeon Spoke was a working title for a moment at the time of the Portal demo, but the band just decided to call it "Portal" for the sake of avoiding any confusion. The year of release for the ten song Portal demo (had it been released) would have been 1995. Portal disbanded in 1996.

Endless Endeavors
Karma's Plight
Circle
Costumed In Grace
Cosmos
Crawl Above
Mirror Child
Road To You
Belong
Not The Same

Check this website out: lot of Cynic demo and 1 concert available for download

CYNIC - A product of the prolific Florida death metal scene

As a product of the prolific Florida death metal scene, Cynic distinguished themselves for their unique experiments in combining technically proficient death metal with progressive rock touches, bordering at times on jazz fusion. Cynic was formed in 1987 by vocalist/guitarist Paul Masvidal, guitarist Jason Gobel, bassist Mark Van Erp, and drummer Sean Reinert. With the arrival of bassist Tony Choy, the band began recording their first demos, which, for the most part, contained the prevalent death metal/thrash tendencies typical of the Florida scene.
Then, in 1991, the band went on temporary hiatus while Masvidal and Reinert performed on Death's Human album and Choy departed to join Atheist. A year later, they reconvened with new bassist Sean Malone and signed with Roadrunner Records, who described them as "the most famous underground band yet to record an album." This they finally did with 1993's classic Focus, a groundbreaking release in the field of progressive death metal. Besides the band's unquestionable technical prowess, the album also displayed their awesome talent for improvisation and inventive songwriting. Singer Tony Teengarden (who had contributed the extreme vocals on the album) was brought on board for a European tour with Pestilence, but this was cut short when the latter broke up. Cynic, too, would decide to go their separate ways shortly after returning home to Florida.